What makes some designs good and others bad? Why do some designs work while others don’t? Posts in this category offer thoughtful design critiques of modern digital interfaces, with commentary inspired by Don Norman’s “The Design of Everyday Things.”
This is a design critique for the iOS app of Netflix – a streaming app. It discusses the main features, design, and comparison with competitors on the basis of Norman’s design principles.
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Bandcamp is an online record store, music community, and streaming service known for supporting independent artists with favorable profit splits and flexible pricing options. It enables fans to purchase artists’ albums digitally and physically as vinyls, tapes, and CDs. The platform also hosts merchandise like shirts and hats. There are social features which allow fans
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Arc- The Conceptual Model Arc is a new-age browser built by ‘The Browser Company’. Browsers are our gateway to the internet. The mental model that one approaches using this browser with is as follows. Arc sets these achievable goals for the user, but promises to be more than a browser. Arc affords functionality of not
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Introduction Data Is Plural is a website and a newsletter service published by Jeremy Singer-Vine that introduces interesting and novel datasets (and data visualizations corresponding to them) to the users. Subscripted users would receive emails about the new editions on a weekly basis and the website is accessible to all users. This critique analyzes both
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In 2022, Netflix achieved several notable successes. It brought its total subscriber base to over 200 million and released several successful original series and films and has continued to expand its footprint globally, launching in new markets and building its local content library. Behind these tremendous accomplishments lies elaborately built user experience design created by
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Google Keep is a free note-taking service launched by Google in March 2013. It allows users to take quick notes like grocery lists, categorize them with custom labels, add reminders, share it with others and organize all notes at one place. Google Keep is available on Android and iOS as a mobile application and on
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The MYmta app is MTA’s official all-in-one app for subways, buses, LIRR, and Metro-North trains. It says the App is “designed for our customers based upon feedback directly from our customers,” and that it “provides a personalized experience across all transit services for daily commuters and tourists.” The app includes functions like trip planning, planned
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Design Critique: Codecademy Codecademy is an online educational platform for student to learn all sorts of coding software such as, python, java, SQL, C++, etc. Relevant courses are design for student at all levels, from foundation learning to technical practices. It has became one of the most popular platform for self-driven leaners to extend their
Air bed and breakfast as its popularly known, Airbnb, is a platform where property owners can rent out their properties for the travellers to stay in. Airbnb is leading the charge when it comes to creating a booking experience that gets the job done for websites. Airbnb has clearly done their research and has been
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Introduction Libby is an app that performs as a digital library. Users can connect their library card to borrow ebooks, audiobooks, magazines, etc. It can be used across multiple devices, transfers to a Kindle e-reader, and allows for offline reading. Libby provides easy access to books at no cost. Navigation Bar The navigation bar features
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